/*
 * Ivory: A Hadoop toolkit for web-scale information retrieval
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 * may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may
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 *
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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package ivory.smrf.retrieval.distributed;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;

/**
 * @author Tamer Elsayed
 */
public class HttpUtils {

	public static String fetchURL(URL url) {
		try {
			URLConnection con = url.openConnection();
			con.setRequestProperty("User-Agent",
					"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; H010818)");
			BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));

			// Read page into buffer.
			String line;
			StringBuffer pageBuffer = new StringBuffer();
			while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
				pageBuffer.append(line);
				pageBuffer.append("\n");
			}

			return pageBuffer.toString();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		return null;
	}
}